The individual conscience is viewed as its own self-legislator, with no principle of truth, or moral good and evil, apart from what the will determines.

On Choosing No Order: 

The Political and Social Dangers of Truth

By Brian Jones

Aristotle, in accordance with Plato, calls to mind why democratically ordered regimes are not advantageous to the common good:

[The conception of justice] is held to be something equal; equality requires that whatever the multitude resolves is authoritative, and freedom and equality involve doing whatever one wants. So in democracies of this sort everyone lives as he wants and toward whatever end he craves, as Euripides says…To live with a view to the regime should not be supposed to be slavery, but preservation (Politics, Book V).

The ancient and medieval view concerning the right ordering of political society often held that democracies were deviant constitutions, not because freedom was a somehow a bad thing, but because its conception of what is true and good for man was severely disordered. And the reason for this was that “democratic freedom” allowed for a view of human living that was not in accord with moral virtue, the good life, but sought to let citizens choose and create their own subjective conceptions of happiness.

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